TAMPA — Take the hot seat away. No one is on it for the Yankees. It is only spring training, as owner Hal Steinbrenner sees it. Time for hope, dreams and a pinstriped glass half full.

“We are at the beginning of the season, no one is on a hot seat right now,” Steinbrenner told The Post. “I am absolutely comfortable with [general manager Brian Cashman and manager Joe Girardi].

“Nobody wants to hear me whine about, but what Girardi dealt with the last two years with injuries. I think he has done a good job, given two abnormal years [for injuries] that I hope doesn’t happen again. As far as Cashman, I think he made some great trades [last] July. That certainly went into my thinking [in re-signing the GM this past offseason]. But more importantly he is a smart guy. I like the people he has under him.

“I like their approach to things and how they come up with decisions and recommend things. I am comfortable with that. I think when you lose four out of five starters [to injury] by the All-Star break [last year], it is going to affect 90 percent of the teams out there and we were one of them. I don’t blame anyone for that.”

When told he was about to get a familiar, annual question, Steinbrenner didn’t even wait for it: “The family is not selling the team. We have no intentions of selling the team. You can quote me on that. I am not sure why everyone continues to ask that. The Steinbrenner family is not selling a majority stake in the New York Yankees. We are not going anywhere.”

Steinbrenner reiterated what the club said in a statement after he and other top executives met with Alex Rodriguez. He said Rodriguez apologized, all concerns were aired and “it is time to focus on baseball.”

“That is really all I am interested in right now, and I told him this, we want to get Alex Rodriguez through spring training healthy so he can contribute,” Steinbrenner said. “It is my same wish for the other 24 players. That’s it. I am not going to dwell on the past. I am not a grudge holder. It is just not my personality. If he can contribute and be healthy, he will be an asset and he will contribute.”

Steinbrenner said he is worried only about today and not if the club will have to eventually release Rodriguez if the disgraced slugger is ineffective and eat some part of the $61 million still owed the next three years. Rodriguez is also six homers shy of Willie Mays and 660. That would be the first of the milestone bonuses that would earn A-Rod $6 million each if he gets there, and the Yankees have indicated they might fight not to pay those because Rodriguez’s ties to steroids have degraded their ability to market the achievements.

“I am not going to get into the home-run bonuses,” Steinbrenner said. “Let’s just get through spring training. You are talking about the future. I am talking about trying to get a guy who hasn’t played baseball in two years through four weeks of games. The future will take care of itself.”